Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.

I pay what I have to and not a penny more.

Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.